Marko Bachl

Marko Bachl

@bachl.bsky.social

communication research at @ifpuk-berlin.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

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Marko Bachl
@bachl.bsky.social

Happy start to the Berlin Vorlesungszeit to all who celebrate, I don't, this year, I have my very first research semester :)

Freie Universität Berlin @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

Willkommen (zurück) auf dem Campus! 👋 Heute beginnt an der Freien Universität die Vorlesungszeit im Wintersemester 2026/27. Universitätspräsident Günter M. Ziegler lädt ein, sich einzubringen: „neugierig und offen, kritisch und verantwortungsbewusst." #FUBerlin #Semesterstart

Marko Bachl
@bachl.bsky.social

Submit your AI + methods related work. All perspectives welcome, critical, constructive, destructive, whatever you have.

Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung | Hans-Bredow-Institut@bredowinstitut.bsky.social

📢 Call for Papers! Die Redaktion von "Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft" ruft zur Einreichung von Beiträgen für eine Sonderausgabe von M&K auf. 🤖 Thema: "Futuring Communication Research: Communicative AI as Methodological Toolbox and Research Companion" 👉 Call for Papers: t1p.de/h3zlc

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SocArXiv
@socarxiv.bsky.social

SocArXiv now has a limit of two papers per week. If authors submit more than that we assume they are LLM-generated and reject them all. Normal humans who need to upload a batch of papers, which sometimes happens, must make arrangements. Also today, ArXiv set a two papers per month limit.

blog.arxiv.orgFair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit PolicyarXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…
Marko Bachl
@bachl.bsky.social

I will talk about using user-centric tracking data in health communication research. Mostly a summary of what @elena-link.bsky.social and me have learnt in past projects and a short glimpse into what we are currently working on. Presentation is here: userpage.fu-berlin.de/bachlm83/met...

userpage.fu-berlin.deMeasuring health-related information seeking and exposure with user-centric tracking data: Lessons learned, open questions, and future developments
Marko Bachl@bachl.bsky.social

#methoden26 is coming to @gesis.org. I am super excited and looking forward to the best conference of the year and the Klassentreffen. Check out the program here: www.gesis.org/forschung/pr...

gesis.orgComputational Opportunities and Challenges in the Measurement of Media Use and Media EffectsGESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

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Ken Benoit
@kenbenoit.bsky.social

quallmer 0.5.0 is now on CRAN: the R package Seraphine Maerz and I are building for LLM-assisted qualitative coding. This release adds robustness, more models, and multimodal input. 🧵 quallmer.github.io/quallmer/ #rstats

quallmer.github.ioQualitative Analysis with Large Language ModelsTools for AI-assisted qualitative data coding using large language models (LLMs) via the ellmer package, supporting providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure, and local models via Ollama. P...
Marko Bachl
@bachl.bsky.social

State of research funding: I am not even able to get a seat in an online info meeting on a grant program. How likely is it that I would get a grant?

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FID Media
@fidmedia.bsky.social

Was bleibt von digitalen Kommunikationskorpora nach Projektende? Unser Workshopbericht im DHd-Blog zeigt, warum gute Dokumentation schon bei der Datenerhebung beginnt und welche Handlungsfelder wir daraus für den FID Media ableiten. Herzlichen Dank an alle Beteiligten! dhd-blog.org?p=24183

Marko Bachl
@bachl.bsky.social

What are we even doing?

Eric Schares@eschares.bsky.social

🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

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Per Engzell
@pengzell.bsky.social

Not everyone wants to become an academic, actually

Matt Weiner@mattweiner19.bsky.social

forget the thing everyone in your field knows and no one else does. what's something you think that everyone else in your field would find shocking, and people outside your field wouldn't find surprising at all?

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Dr. Melanie Leidecker-Sandmann
@leidecker-sandmann.bsky.social

Wer bzw. wessen Expertise zum Thema #genAI wird in der deutschen Printmedien Berichterstattung referiert? Dieser Frage geht unser kürzlich veröffentlichtes Paper nach. Lest gerne mal rein! #WissKomm

Studies in Communication and Media (SCM)@scmeditor.bsky.social

Who dominates the public discourse on #ChatGPT and co? Tabea Lüders, Nikolai Promies, @leidecker-sandmann.bsky.social & Markus Lehmkuhl propose a conceptual framework for public actors’ expertise on #genAI and apply it to German print media. doi.org/10.5771/2192...

Marko Bachl
@bachl.bsky.social

@gles.bsky.social has implemented data donations, I did not know this. Nice :)

German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES)@gles.bsky.social

🔄 Updated data: GLES Tracking March 2025, Repeated Respondents T60W, version 2.0.0 (ZA10132) ➕ Open-ended responses on the most important political problem ➕Paradata from the survey's linked data donation component 📄 See documentation for a complete overview of the updates. 📥 doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA...

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Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD)
@dwdderwetterdienst.bsky.social

Erste vorläufige Höchstwerte von heute: 41,1°C Saarbrücken-Burbach, 40,7°C Bad Kreuznach, je 40,4°C in Kitzingen, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Trier-Zewen und Waghäusel-Kirrlach, 40,1°C in Frankfurt/Main. Eine Qualitätskontrolle dieser Messwerte ist noch nicht erfolgt und wird noch vorgenommen.

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Christina Viehmann
@christinaviehmann.bsky.social

Hi #ica26, interested in computational approaches and media use & effects? This is for you: 📢 CfP CCR Special Issue: From normalization to next frontiers: Media use & effects in the computational era. 🗓Abstracts due: Oct 16 journal.computationalcommunication.org/announcement... @icacm.bsky.social

journal.computationalcommunication.org Call for Papers: CCR Special Issue on Media Use and Effects in the Computational Era | Computational Communication Research

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Tobias Dienlin
@tobiasdienlin.com

There are some (non ICA) Comm journals offering Registered Reports: - European Journal of Health Comm (@ejhc.bsky.social) - Communication Research Reports - Computational Communication Research (@computationalcommunication.org) - Frontiers in Communication See: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

docs.google.comOpen Media and Communication Research
Doug Parry@dougaparry.bsky.social

I could be missing some, but is @computationalcommunication.org the only comm-specific journal to have fully endorsed RRs?

Marko Bachl
@bachl.bsky.social

This is a really cool study

Brandon Stewart@bstewart.bsky.social

1/ New @Nature! We study how powerful institutions shape the information environment for LLMs. Commercial LLM training is opaque, so we trace a path from state-coordinated media -> training data -> model responses.

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Nate Persily
@persily.bsky.social

The Draft Volume of the APSA AI Task Force, cochaired by Josh Tucker and me, is now available. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, POLITICS, AND POLITICAL SCIENCE will be published by Cambridge Press later this year, but the draft chapters are available today: apsanet.org/wp-content/u...

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Journal of Science Communication (JCOM)
@jscicom.bsky.social

So happy to see new research featured in JCOM in @scicommbites.bsky.social - see scicommbites.org/does-informa... - by @selinaabeckmann + @elena-link + @bachl.bsky.social

scicommbites.orgDoes Information Source Matter in Health Communication? A Public Perspective - SciCommBitesOk, so we've all been guilty of consulting Dr. Google for health advice at some point. However, if a google search pulls up advice from a health expert or a generative AI, which sources are most likel...

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Tobias Dienlin
@tobiasdienlin.com

Are you a Comm scholar and want to push #openscience in our field? The @icahdq.bsky.social committee "Open Access Open Scholarship", which I'm chairing, is currently looking for a new member. Interested? Then reach out and I'm happy to share more information!

Marko Bachl
@bachl.bsky.social

This is a very good paper and you should all read it. However, to this part, I want to reply with Arthur Spirling: "Open generative AI models are a way forward for science" (doi.org/10.1038/d415...). Seriously, please don't default to sending students and other researchers to closed models.

Public Opinion Analytics Lab (POAL)@poalab.bsky.social

AJPS article from @kenbenoit.bsky.social, Scott de Marchi, Conor Laver, Michael Laver, and Jinshuai Ma on using LLMs to analyse political texts. 🧵 1/8 Social science research requires reliable extraction of information from texts to identify authors' preferences on various policies and issues.

Marko Bachl
@bachl.bsky.social

love it.

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social

From the peer review: "What the paper actually shows is that there exists a system which can produce a mediocre workshop paper with limited human intervention ... This is very impressive in itself." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Christian Strippel
@strippel.bsky.social

In knapp zwei Wochen, am 30.3., endet die Einreichungsfrist für unsere Tagung „Utopien und Dystopien der digitalen Gesellschaft“ am 16.–18.9.2026 @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social in Berlin! Wir freuen uns auf eure Beiträge! #CfP #digikomm2026

Christian Strippel@strippel.bsky.social

Am 16.–18. September 2026 veranstalten wir am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social eine Tagung zu „Utopien und Dystopien der digitalen Gesellschaft“, in der wir auf 30 Jahre Forschung zu Computer, Internet und Co. blicken. Einreichungsfrist: 30. März 2026. #CfP www.weizenbaum-institut.de/digikomm2026/

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Freie Universität Berlin
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

Erfolg in der Exzellenzstrategie 🎉 Mit großem Einsatz haben viele FU-Angehörige die BUA in den vergangenen Jahren mitgestaltet. „Ihr Einsatz und Ihre Kreativität haben entscheidend zu diesem Meilenstein beigetragen“, sagt FU-Präsident Günter M. Ziegler. „Dafür danke ich Ihnen allen sehr herzlich!“